Rwaida Izar, MPH, Managing Editor

Rwaida is passionate about community health and grassroots organizing, access to care for under-served populations, reducing health disparities, and the overall intersection between public health and racial justice. She earned her MPH in Health Policy & Management at NYU. She has worked to coordinate NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s Mental Health First Aid trainings, for NYC’s neighborhood health action centers, as well as forensic mental health evaluations for vulnerable immigrant populations fleeing gang violence, domestic abuse, and persecution.

Rwaida also has an extensive background in researching local and national opioid trends. Her favorite forms of self-care involve photography and sampling all the Thai food and Ramen in the city.